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    in humanities and social science joined the association: École française d'Extrême-Orient, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), École...
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    Louis-Sébastien Mercier (category French science fiction writers)
    1778-1784: Theatre complet de M. Mercier. Tome premier; Tome second; Tome troisieme; Tome quatrieme, Amsterdam 1778: Le déserteur, drame en cinq actes en prose...
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    the Cambridge faculty of the day. Beyond his work on the mathematical sciences, Newton dedicated much of his time to the study of alchemy and biblical...
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    Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, 1749–1783 Johan Carl Wilcke and Henrik Nicander, 1784–1796 Daniel Melanderhjelm and Henrik Nicander, 1796–1803 Jöns Svanberg and...
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  • great theodolite constructed by Jesse Ramsden for the Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790) linking the observatories of Paris and Greenwich. June – William Symington...
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  • ancient Rome. The gesture was first associated with ancient Rome in the 1784 painting The Oath of the Horatii by the French artist Jacques-Louis David...
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    Teylers Museum (category 1784 establishments in the Dutch Republic)
    science. The historic centre of the museum is the neoclassical Oval Room (1784), which was built behind the house of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702–1778)...
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    Ferdinand VII (category 1784 births)
    Ferdinand VII (Spanish: Fernando VII; 14 October 1784 – 29 September 1833) was King of Spain during the early 19th century. He reigned briefly in 1808...
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    charter under George II of Great Britain. It was renamed Columbia College in 1784 following the American Revolution, and in 1787 was placed under a private...
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    Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    simples" First page of a 1821 copy of "Théorie des machines simples" In 1784, his memoir Recherches théoriques et expérimentales sur la force de torsion...
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    Nicolas Appert (category People from Châlons-en-Champagne)
    of food science", described his invention as a way "of conserving all kinds of food substances in containers". Appert was born in Châlons-en-Champagne...
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    The 2nd Bombardment of Algiers took place between 12 and 21 July 1784. A joint Spanish-Neapolitan-Maltese-Portuguese fleet commanded by the Spanish Admiral...
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  • Series ECM 1782/83 2002 Thomas Demenga Yun/Bach/Hosowaka ECM New Series ECM 1784 2001 Charles Lloyd Hyperion with Higgins ECM 1785 2002 Robin Williamson Skirting...
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    Montgolfier brothers (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    Brothers and the Invention of Aviation 1783–1784 : With a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads...
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    March 1808 to 7 February 1814. He was the last king of Denmark–Norway. From 1784 until his accession, he served as regent during his father's mental illness...
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    the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army. The United States Army considers...
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    Promoted to lieutenant general on 27 October 1784, he was appointed colonel of the Coldstream Guards on 28 October 1784. He was created Duke of York and Albany...
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    half-brother Frederick, and the Danish politician Ove Høegh-Guldberg. From 1784 until Christian VII's death in 1808, Christian's son, later Frederick VI...
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    Prunus incisa (category Plants described in 1784)
    T50475511A174151190. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T50475511A174151190.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021. "Prunus incisa". Germplasm Resources Information...
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    Aristotle (category Philosophers of science)
    polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts...
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    1771–1787, he produced much of his original work in astronomy. From 1780 to 1784, Laplace and French chemist Antoine Lavoisier collaborated on several experimental...
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  • The Liberator 2013 1783–1830 Life of Simon Bolivar Jefferson in Paris 1995 1784–1788 A semi-fictional account of Thomas Jefferson's tenure as the Ambassador...
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    des isles de Sicile … 1782. Johann Andreas Murray. Apparatus Medicaminum … 1784. William Cullen. A treatise of the materia medica … 1789. Food portal Alhagi...
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    at least four Anglo-Dutch wars: 1652–1654, 1665–1667, 1672–1674 and 1780–1784. Competition arose in 1635 when Charles I granted a trading licence to Sir...
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    Johannes Kepler. In 1784 the scientific community was first formally organized under the charter of the Royal Czech Society of Sciences. Currently, this...
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    Houbara bustard (category Birds described in 1784)
    undulata was the scientific name proposed by Joseph Franz von Jacquin in 1784 who described a houbara brought from Tripoli to Vienna's Tiergarten Schönbrunn...
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    Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism (category 1784 in science)
    and independent French Royal Commissions, each appointed by Louis XVI in 1784, that were conducted simultaneously by a committee composed of four physicians...
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    Adrien-Marie Legendre (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 1783 Sur l'attraction des Sphéroïdes homogènes (work on Legendre polynomials) 1784 Recherches sur la figure des...
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    Mechanical Turk (category Hoaxes in science)
    some to have supernatural power; Karl Gottlieb von Windisch wrote in his 1784 book Inanimate Reason that "[o]ne old lady, in particular, who had not forgotten...
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    Christian Daniel von (1792) [Chapter on The Squirrel first published in 1784]. "Der Springer" [The Squirrel]. Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur...
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